Jean Renoir wrote “Carola” as a play, but when he became too ill to stage it himself, he personally entrusted the piece to Norman Lloyd who brings it to lustrous life on the small screen. Backstage at a theater in Nazi-occupied France, a resistance fighter seeks refuge in the dressing room of Carola (Leslie Caron) but, enamored of her beauty, refuses to leave until she gives him an autograph. The young man’s romantic gesture confounds the cynical star as she expects an imminent visit from a German officer whom she once loved with a similar devil-may-care passion.